sbobet asianPep Guardiola has confirmed Sergio Aguero will miss the rest of Man City's season but could be ready for the World Cup. The striker underwent successful keyhole surgery on a knee injury, which the club have called a "minor" operation designed to correct a problem he has been playing through since sustaining it in training in March.

City decided to go ahead with the surgery at the time, given they have already won the Premier League title and are not competing in the latter stages of either the Champions League or the FA Cup. Aguero missed City's 3-1 victory over Tottenham, his last appearance coming as a second-half substitute in the Champions League quarter-final second-leg defeat to Liverpool.

When asked if his season was over, City boss Guardiola said: "Here, yes. It is four or five weeks [out]. Hopefully he is going to be ready for the World Cup and he will be ready for the next season. "He is in Barcelona right now, for the first part of the rehabilitation he is going to be there." sbobet asian

Despite Guardiola's hope that Aguero could return in time for this summer's World Cup, Argentina Football Association doctor Homero D'Agostino expressed a more cautionary tone. He told TyC Sports that Aguero "is not going to be 100 per cent in shape with so little time prior to the World Cup". The World Cup begins in Russia on June 14, with Argentina's first match taking place against Iceland two days later. sbobet asian

sbo222Dele Alli is hoping the quad complaint picked up in England’s World Cup win against Tunisia is not too serious.The 22-year-old played 80 minutes of Monday’s 2-1 Group G clash in Volgograd, despite Fabian Delph being stripped and seemingly ready to come on in the first half.

Alli will have the quad issue assessed upon England’s return to the team base in Repino, with the midfielder hoping it will not rule him out Sunday’s match against Panama.“Hopefully I am OK,” Alli said after the game. “It’s my quad.”England manager Gareth Southgate will be hoping for good news after keeping tabs Alli’s issue against Tunisia. sbo222

“We had to keep monitoring Dele,” the Three Lions boss said.“He was feeling a little bit of an issue just before half-time, but he felt he could carry on and I thought the runs that he was making and the way he was pressing the ball was still causing a problem.“He had a half chance with a lovely ball Jordan Henderson played to him, lofted over the top.

“But we have good options on the bench and we felt to put the freshness of Marcus (Rashford) and Ruben (Loftus-Cheek) would both bring fresh energy but also a different sort threat to the one that we’d posed.” sbo222